Thursday, February 7, 2008

AFN plans to invite ‘visionary’ Chavez to visit Canada

The Assembly of First Nations plans to invite Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Bolivian President Evo Morales to visit Canada this year as part of its campaign to pressure the Conservative government into signing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
The AFN passed a resolution during a special, mid-December chiefs assembly in Ottawa directing AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine to work with Foreign Affairs to get Chavez and Morales to Canada. The resolution came as part of a batch addressing the UN declaration that also included calls that Canada be removed from the UN Human Rights Council."

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  1. You can ask many indians what they think about the Assembly of First Nations: this outfit is part of the long co-optation process of the north american bourgeoisie to dispossess the indians and Inuit of most all they possess, which started when Jacques Cartier showed up to go camping. But seeing as how Morales -- and to a certain extent, Chávez -- are more reformist than many people might suppose, it's a good bet that these two would be amenable to being used by these indian NGO and bureaucrat politico types.

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